foretold
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But no one foretold that the star to whom the Dodgers agreed last winter to pay an average of $60 million each year would be, well, average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The extravagant and perhaps exaggerated promises of artificial superintelligence always foretold this outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Little is known about the saint who, according to legend, was born on a clifftop in Pembrokeshire during a violent storm, after angels foretold his birth to St Patrick 30 years prior.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Some claim that the stock market’s full-year direction is foretold by its performance on the first trading day of January; others focus on the first two days, and still others on the first week.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Apparently, the lady had heard that the child was the subject of a witches’ prophecy, but she did not know what it foretold.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
